Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-02
WICHITA JOINTS"

WICHITA JOINTS"
The Wichita papers seemed to be very
incensed because of report that Attorney
General Bradford is going to that city to
investigate the reports that saloons are open
there. The Wichita brethren should keep
their Undertaking on. The Attorney
General of Kansas is directed by certain
laws of this state, for which the senator
and all the representatives of Sedgwick
county voted, to see that saloons ana
'ejOints" are closed. The Wichita
papers and the city council of Wichita
are responsible for the statements,
widely published, that the temperance law
is openly defied in Wichita. Shortly after
the last municipal election the Mayor OF
Wichita directed the police force OF that
city to see that the saloons and joints were
closed Within brief time thereafter an
Associated Press dispatch from Wichita
announced that the city council had
repealed all the ordinances which
gave the mayor authority to sup
press liquor selling. This action is moth
ing more or less than an attempt, on
the part of the municipal authorities of
Wichita to nullify the laws of the state
Nobody wishes Wichita ill., Kansas
people generally are proud of the growth
and prosperity of that city. But Wichita
Is not, and never will be, "a bigger man.
than the state of Kansas, and whenever
Wichita imagines that she can defy or
nullify the laws of the state she will be
taught a wholesome lesson. 1t will be
far better for Wichita to keep in line with
the public sentiment of Kansas, and close
the saloons and joints-if any are open
there without the interference OF the
state authorities If she does not, the
state authorities will see that the saloons
and Joints are closed The law makes it
the duty of the attorney general to look
after such business and he will do it
Atchison Champion.
The above for a distillation of gall has
seldom been excelled We have heard of
no threats made by the Wichita people to
get outside of their under clothing. AS for
the charge that the Wichita papers and city
council, singly or combined, were ever au-
thority for the published statement that any
law was ever openly defied in Wichita, we
simply denounce as untrue. AS for
any such news ever being sent out from
this city by the Associate Press, we deny
that also and dare a showing. Wichita
people are not, however, responsible for
special dispatches sent from and dated at
Topeka, to the Kansas City papers, and
solely for the delectation of the residents of
other cities of this state where open saloons
have been running up till within few
months, to the scandal of the state and its
officials. The saloons of Wichita were
closed when the original prohibition law
went into effect and were never again
opened As for Wichita drug stores, they
any other town in the state nor have her
joints been any more numerous than
those of Topeka, nor half SO
numerous as the open saloons in
Atchison and Leavenworth up to a very
few months ago. Wichita, nor her papers,
nor her city council, nor her Associated
Press agent were in any way responsible
for the late racket into which certain Of
ficials have allowed themselves to be drawn.
As far as the state officers are concerned
the EAGLE has said all along, and says
now, let them investigate to their hearts
content-turn themselves loose. Our PEG
pie are as law abiding as any people in the
state. II anybody is disobeying the law
hoo tc Of l. To nr,r hn
will throw no obstacle in the way of the
proper punishment of all offenders. Only
stop your miserable. mean attempts to
blast the good name of our place. AS
far as the state authorities are concerned
we say now what we have said
all along, let the state authorities turn
themselves loose Innocent men have no
dread of the state authorities. If there is
any whisky selling in this city not in &C
cOrdance with law, for heavens sake dry
the thing up and quit blowing about it.
Send on these officers who are said to be
stuffed so full of the meat upon which
CHzar fed, for our people are getting tired
of howl taken up from an open enemy by
pretended friends 1t has been but very
short time. comparatively, since the
saloons in Atchison and Leavenworth were
run wide open and plenty of unprejudiced
men, who know all three places, show no
hesitancy in saying that there
is more whisky drank in either
Leavenworth or Atchison any day than in
Wichita.
We are also tired of the Bradford racket
If there are people in Wichita WHO are
violating the Murray law and he can find
them and prosecute them, does the Cham
pion think that the people of Wichita are
going to interfere? Mr. Bradford might
C ONE into Wichita and stay week and
n obody would be any The wiser for it I'M
l ess he should announce his presence so
that every opportunity would be his for
getting al the facts.
The truth is Wichita has been so per-
sist intly lied about that no doubt half of
the people of the state have come to think
it a regular rum hole, and the quickest
W ay to down this wrong impression is for
he authorities TO make an investigation
nd follow it with an honest report.
Omaha Republican: The yellow sedi-
ment which is sold as water prejudices
strangers against the CITY. If the CON-